Hundreds gathered in Jackson to celebrate Serbian Orthodox Christmas with traditional events, including a church service, a ...

While Christmas 2025 is beginning to fade into the past for many people, Christians in many Eastern Orthodox churches are ...

Northwest Indiana is known for its cultural and religious diversity, thanks to large historical waves of immigration to the Region. A big part of its “melting pot” are those who celebrate the holidays ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The permanent collection of Purdue University Galleries is now home to one of the largest private Orthodox Christian icon collections in the country, and an exhibition of these ...

A century is certainly a long time for any type of institution. For this Lorain church, 2024 marks 100 years since its initial founding in 1924. The inside of St. George Serbian Orthodox Church, 3335 ...

CETINJE, Montenegro -- Christmas Eve celebrations were held by Montenegro's two dueling Orthodox denominations in the Balkan country's historical capital on January 6 without incident. Thousands of ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Artist Miltiadis Afentoulis of Nyack is painting eight Byzantine-style icons depicting the life events of Jesus on the walls of the sanctuary of St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church on ...

The Rev. Nicholas Jonas says he was in disbelief when he saw tears streaming down the face of a painting of Mary holding the child Jesus in his chapel. “When these things happen, I feel like a little ...

On Orthodox Christmas Eve, two distinct groups of Montenegrins will gather in the "royal capital" of Cetinje as they've done for more than two decades to mark the birth of Jesus Christ with separate ...

Icons — paintings that represent saints, Jesus, the Virgin Mary and biblical events — are a staple of Greek Orthodox churches, said Father Seraphim Ramos, the second priest of St. John the Baptist ...

For modern skeptics, the 6th-century icon hanging in the Orthodox monastery in the shadow of Mount Sinai is simply a 33-by-18-inch board covered in bees wax and colored pigments. For believers, this ...